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And Jonathan Swift was actually advocating eating children.
by rhcom2 11mo ago
And Jonathan Swift was actually advocating eating children.
- palmotea 11mo ago> And Jonathan Swift was actually advocating eating children. If you're going to engage in satire, its best the satire be obvious. I believe there are capitalist economist types who believe what Summers wrote unironically.
- rhcom2 11mo agoAlso known as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
- mwcremer 11mo agoSorry, did you mean "Summers unironically wrote" or "capitalist economist types unironically believe" ?
- quuxplusone 11mo agoOr, for that matter, "I unironically believe"? ;) From context, GP's "I believe there are capitalist economist types who believe what Summers wrote unironically" obviously meant "I [perhaps ironically] believe there are capitalist economist types who unironically believe what Summers [perhaps ironically] wrote." The next rhetorical question is: what does it even mean to believe something ironically? Sounds like the sort of grammatical blivetry that would have gotten 17th-century critics up in arms. > Many times he [Shakespeare] fell into those things [which] could not escape laughter — as when he said in the person of Caesar [...] "Caesar did never wrong but with just cause."
- _yb2s 11mo ago> there are capitalist economist types who believe what Summers wrote unironically And Summers himself is one of them- he spent most of his career making things analogous to that essay actually happen
- jonny_eh 11mo agoJonathan Swift was a writer and known satirist with publicly known views that were opposite to the absurdist views expressed in his famous satire.